Nu Vibez and Roleplay Guide Magazine - March 2014 | Page 73

Follow the Red Carpet Road - p2

The annual Academy Awards ceremony
has never really held me cap vated.
Awards like these are subjec ve; how
can you compare Meryl Streep to Cate
Blanche , or Sandra Bullock, or to, um...
anyone? I do love watching the stars
sashay along the red carpet, pausing to
pose just so for the cameras or speak to
over-zealous reporters, a few of whom
may be 86-ed a er this year's 86th show
(it's Julia Roberts, not Jennifer. How can
you mess that up?).
This year was different. Let's downshi
right past what people are calling host
Ellen Degeneres's lackluster and almost
bi er opening. All of my personal sites
were set on several very deserving
nominees.
Both “12 Years a Slave” and “Dallas
Buyer's Club” were filmed in New
Orleans; a city that rose up a er
Hurricane Katrina to become the
Hollywood of the South. Knowing several
of the actors in these films and how
passionately my agency worked in
pitching them for their respec ve roles
made me so proud.
Ma hew McConaughey (who hails from
Longview, Texas) has certainly shed his
silver-tongued, surfer-dude image,
alright! Oh, and a shout out to my new
Jesus crush Jared Leto for pu ng Bossier
City, Louisiana on the map!

Seeing Jared decked out in a white suit ala
“Saturday Night Fever”gave me a sudden
flashback to my date for senior prom.

Leto snagged the award for Best
Suppor ng Actor, and set the bar for an
eve n i n g o f effo r t l e s s l y e l o q u e nt
acceptance speeches. Ma hew
McConaughey, Lupita Nyong'o, and Cate
Blanche (all first- me Oscar winners)
were totally in command of their
moments on stage, and yet so gracious.
Ok, Blanche blundered a bit with her
misuse of the word 'exacerbates' when
thanking presenter Daniel Day-Lewis.
Was taking the v